Vintage Jade™ Distylium
Distylium hybrid ‘Vintage Jade’ PP23,128
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2-2.5′
Width at Maturity: 5′
Spacing: 3-4′ for solid hedges; 6’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Spreading, Mounding
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Red
Flower Size: .25″
Flowering Period: Winter/Late Winter
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green with Bluish cast
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sandy (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Consistently Moist
Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acidic)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Consistently Moist Soil
Description
Every once in a while, maybe once in a decade, a new plant comes along that has everything we look for in a hardy and reliable evergreen flowering shrub. Very adaptable, Distyliums, also known as Evergreen Witch Hazel, grow well in sun or part shade and will tolerate dry or wet soils when established, which can’t be said about many shrubs. Very adaptable, Distyliums grow well in sun or part shade and will tolerate dry or wet soils when established, which can’t be said about many shrubs. Heat and humidity don’t phase the plants. We’ve seen no problems with insects and disease and deer turn their nose up to it. In landscape design, Distyliums are a great alternative for boxwood, laurels, holly and juniper in sunny to partially shaded home foundation plantings, landscape borders, and as a soil stabilizer on embankments and slopes.
Vintage Jade Distylium forms an evergreen spreading mound of handsome bluish-green leaves that provide a unique texture and color which contrasts nicely with plants of lighter or darker color. A member of the witch hazel family, petite red flowers appear along the ends of stems in late winter through early spring.
Landscape & Garden Uses
A lower grower to only 2 to 2.5 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide in a spreading mound, Vintage Jade Distylium is ideal for use where a low-growing evergreen accent, grouping or low hedge is needed in home foundation plants and landscape borders. Also great for use in mass plantings on embankments, hillsides and slopes to stabilize soil for erosion control.
Spacing Suggestions: 4′ for mass planting or solid hedges; 8′ or more for space between plants
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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Distylium variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Exceptionally adaptable, Vintage Jade Distylium is very easy to grow in most any moist to moderately drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It tolerates wet soils better than many other evergreen shrubs and is also tolerant of dry soil conditions when established. We have Distyliums growing in sites that receive 4 hours and up to 8 hours of direct sunlight per day and plants do equally well. That said, the plants in more sun might be a little more dense. Maintenance is minimal unless you want a more formal shape or hedge, which will require some pruning.
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